Brain Tissue Engineering

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Rebecca Willits (she/her/hers)

  Northeastern University, United States
• JB

  Jonathan Brunger, PhD

  Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
  Vanderbilt University
  Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Yan Li, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Professor
  Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University
  Tallahassee, Florida, United States
• 

  Jonathan Butcher, PhD (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York, United States
• PZ

  Pinar Zorlutuna

  Professor
  University of Notre Dame, United States

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EST

  Impact of Mast Cell Conditioned Media on Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells and Mixed Neural Cultures in Autism Spectrum Disorder
  

  Presenting Author: Katherine Ebbert (she/her/hers) – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Co-Author: Rui Chen – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Co-Author: Heidi Huang – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Co-Author: Robert Culibrk – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institue

  Co-Author: Leo Wan, PhD – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute `

  Primary Investigator: Mariah Hahn, PhD (she/her/hers) – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EST

  Investigating the effect of intrinsic and extrinsic cues of Alzheimer’s disease on immune cell trafficking via in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth Kim (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Tracy Chung, PhD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University

  Primary Investigator: Peter Searson – Johns Hopkins University
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EST

  Microengineering of human vascularized brain tissue for modeling Lewy pathology in Parkinson's Disease and related Synucleinopathies
  

  Presenting Author: Anika Alim – SUNY Binghamton

  Co-Author: Myungwoon Lee – Drexel University

  Primary Investigator: Jungwook Paek, PhD – SUNY Binghamton
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EST

  Understanding early blood-brain barrier dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease using an isogenic microvessel model
  

  Presenting Author: Nan Zhao, Ph.D – Johns Hopkins University

  Last Author: Peter Searson – Johns Hopkins University
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST

  3D Human iPSC-Derived Immuno-Glial-Neurovascular miBrain Tissue Model for Enhanced Modeling and Therapeutic Discovery and Development
  

  Presenting Author: Alice E. Stanton (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM EST

  Bioengineering a long-lasting human neurovascular niche model with perfused vascular networks
  

  Presenting Author: Christina A. Velez (she/her/hers) – Northeastern University

  Primary Investigator: Guohao Dai, PhD – Northeastern University